The Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame will reportedly have one of its most illustrious classes of recent memory, inducting the likes of Steve Nash, Jason Kidd, Grant Hill, Maurice Cheeks, and Tina Thompson, to name a few.

Among the candidates eligible for a trip to Springfield is Ray Allen, one of the finest shooters in basketball history, who believes he has a “great shot” to join his fellow players come Sept. 7, according to Gary Washburn of The Boston Globe.

Allen started his career with the Milwaukee Bucks, drafted with the No. 5 pick in a talent-loaded 1996 NBA Draft, and playing for the team for the better part of seven seasons before being traded to the Seattle SuperSonics.

The 3-point sniper spent his next four-and-a-half seasons with the Sonics before being acquired by the Boston Celtics and teaming up with Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett, winning a championship in their first season together in 2008 — one that would cement his legacy as a title-winning shooting guard in the league.

Allen then left the Celtics after five seasons to join the Miami Heat for the next two, helping them to a championship in his first season with the team, including a memorable game-tying 3-pointer with 5.2 seconds left in the fourth quarter of Game 6 against the San Antonio Spurs — one that injected life into his team, which would hold on to win it all in a crucial Game 7.

A 10-time All-Star selection and a two-time champion, Allen's mark of 2,973 shots from beyond the arc still reign as the all-time top mark, 413 more than second-place Reggie Miller.

Other candidates likely to be included are five-time NBA All-Star Chris Webber and Rudy Tomjanovich, who coached the Houston Rockets to back-to-back titles in 1994 and 1995.